"In a letter to his mother in 1954, a young Ernesto Guevara wrote, "The Americas will be the theater of my adventures in a way that is much more significant than I would have believed." In The Awakening of Latin America we have the story of those adventures, charting Che's evolution from an impressionable young medical student to the "heroic guerrilla," assassinated in cold blood in Bolivia. Spanning seventeen years, this anthology draws on from his...

INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR: Wade Davis has written several, critically acclaimed books including Magdalena and Into the Silence. MEDIA INTEREST: Davis's viral Rolling Stone piece "The Unraveling of America" is included in this collection. He has also appeared in/written for outlets including Rolling Stone, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the New Yorker, and the Wall Street Journal. UNIQUE PERSPECTIVE: Davis, who holds degrees in...